Nerds on Rails
It’s no secret that I do web developing in my spare time. Last year, a friend aksed me if I knew anyone who would build a small site for him and a friend who had a dream…
Colin Summers, the genius behind tightcircle.com and my mightycheese email address, had been wanting to do something in ruby on rails and when we work together, he ends up buying me lunch, so we figured we’d whip up the site in a month or so.
I’d almost built it in php/mysql last rocktober or something. it’s been so damned long.
irregardlessly…
between feature creep and incompetence it took nearly 8 months to finish. i’m not going to build stuff for anyone else anymore. i’m not good at it. i’ll work for a company who has a buffer between me and the clients, but i’m not a people person.
so… the site is up. i’m sure they’re not thrilled with it, but there is some really cool technology and nice content management and a screamingly cool ruby on rails back-end.
http://www.comedyfilmnerds.com
Chris directed me in a short film - Rainbow’s End and is a good egg…
His pardner, Graham Elwood, travels to Iraq to perform comedy. Seriously. He actually lands where there is sniper fire unlike that lying scumbag.
They love movies. They love comedy. What’s better than that?
Lucky?
I enjoy watching shows like Video Justice, Shockwave, World’s Wildest Videos and other real crappy crap crap crap t.v.
Why in the hell would you call a helicopter pilot whose helicopter crashes lucky? Why do people thank god when their houses are destroyed and say they are blessed? Do they not realize that their house was fucking destroyed?
I consider myself lucky. I’ve never been in a plane crash (if you don’t count that foaming the runway thing) and have never had my home destroyed. I’m lucky. Not a guy who has been hit by an 18 wheeler and been through a year of rehabilitation in the hospital.
Next caller.
free money
A million years ago, before you were born. PayPal was handing out 10 bucks for every referral one sent them. I know someone who paid their rent that month with the money.
This is a service from Steve Case, the man who brought you AOL.
Sign up, you’ll get $25, I’ll get $10 and we’ll all be better for it.
entendre?
Great tits cope well with warming
Dog Park
Chronic unemployment gives me the opportunity to take my dogs to the dog park every day.
Sometimes, I’m lucky enough to capture something like this:
The thing to realize is that I had enough time to:
- watch and think “this is going on a long time”
- put my phone in video capture mode
- stop laughing long enough to capture said video on phone
Sylvia Brown
Why the fuck didn’t one psychic predict the 20k dead people? Sylvia Browne says she picks up vibrations about the future.
I’d like to kick her in the balls.
RoR
So cool when stuff works.
This past year, I’ve been on a mission to learn ruby & ruby on rails. i keep hitting dead ends as books screw up or tutorials don’t deal with the current version or i just get lazy and bored.
regardless, this site: http://www.buildingwebapps.com/LearningRails/ has excellent webcasts if either of you are interested in learning.
That’s all.
Spontaneous Publicity
This is the kind of spontaneous publicity I need to get ahead!
Interview with a blogger thing.
So odd.
Fanning the Flames
oh, i’m in trouble now. he’s gotten an attorney from orinda to write my agents and let them know that i’m unprofessional. i bet that will kill my career even more than it already is. i should never have taken him on. that was a mistake. he is a powerful man with powerful friends and an ATTORNEY ON FUCKING RETAINER!!! and i am totally and utterly fucked. crap. i’m doomed. i’m really doomed. what really sucks is my plans to make millions and millions by stealing a play and calling it my own are now dashed upon the rocks! shit. how can i ever get over this? i’ve crossed one more hollywood superpower mogul and i bet it’s my last because this is going to really drive the dirty old career in to the dirt. i wouldn’t be surprised if the ATTORNEY ON RETAINER managed to get all of my shitty movies pulled out of late night rotation on cable.
how can i get him to forgive me. i can’t. i just can’t. i’m doomed to even more unemployment.
crap. will i ever learn? damn. damn. damn.
I sent the following fax to all the parties involved. unprofessional with a capital u.
dean cameron
16255 ventura blvd 509
encino, ca
91436malpractice attorney
261 holly lane
orinda, california 94653
fax - 925 886 6793“dean cameron’s agents”
10635 santa monica blvd
130/135
los angeles, ca 90025hello everyone,
apparently, the right honorable john pappas was upset that I didn’t return his calls in a timely manner and has gotten a “lawyer acquaintance” to waste your time as well as mine. I apologize for that.
i’d attempted to help the writer get a theater for his “casual” reading but he decided to have it in long beach on a Monday which was inconvenient for me.
the most frightening thing about all of this is that, instead of following my regular procedure and having him send the script to my mailbox, he seemed like a good egg
and i wanted to expedite the proceedings so i gave him my home address. now I’m actually scared for my safety and that of my wife and I’m hopeful that he won’t show up
unannounced, demanding the 5 bucks it cost him to print a script and send it out.to protect his privacy i had edited the call before I put it up on my web site to remove his name. I often post calls and correspondence I get from stalkers and other crazy people.
i’ve gone ahead and posted the unedited version with his name included, as well as the fax with the official looking “attorney letterhead” with the p.o. box. it would seem that he’s hurting for business. maybe the two or three people who visit my site each week could use a malpractice attorney.
below is my reply to the “writer’s” harassing voice mail. make special note of the section where I request him to perform an unnatural act upon my primary sexual characteristic as if another, lower, part of that area is full of air and he is drowning. my choice of words, of course, are a bit more “earthy” and the follow-up is truly vile. (though quite pleasant, truth-be-told.)
regardless, the request remains open-ended. (a pun!)
though, having a vengeful person that close to my little dinky may be a bit more excitement than this old almost-ran can take. perhaps it’s included in the attorney’s retainer. i can dream, right?
yours in abject terror,
dean cameron
Message-Id:
From: dean cameron
To: John Niko
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Subject: bail?
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2)
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:14:06 -0700–Apple-Mail-4–121503500
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bitI didn’t bail on you and I really don’t understand what the
condescending message and anger at me is all about? Maybe you’re joking.I tried to get sacred fools for you and when that didn’t work out, I
offered to help you get a theater but you said you were going to have the reading at someone’s house. I asked you if you wanted me to get the info just in case and you said no, you were going to have the reading at someone’s house because you didn’t want to spend any money.Then you called me in the middle of the day saying you were going to go look at the theater and i should meet you there, somehow assuming that I was around or available. I wasn’t. I’m not. I don’t have much of a life, at all, but I’m not able to drop everything and scurry over to east hollywood to hold your hand and look at a theater that I’ve seen a whole bunch.
You don’t need to call and talk to me in a condescending voice like
that. Spend three fucking dollars at kinko’s or print it out like the
rest of us.Maybe you’re joking but it doesn’t sound like it. I tried to help you
and you’re angry at me. Fascinating.Instead of me sending the script back, how about this:
Suck my cock like you’re drowning and my balls are filled with air.
Then I will roll over and you can tongue my shithole.Amazing.
—
dean cameron
www.deancameron.com
The message is here. It’s too much trouble to post the original where he says his name.
Videos
I added two videos wot I directed to the “projects” page.
glutton falls is a short film & fat girl is a rock video for metal skool aka steelpanthermetalshopdangerkitty